America's "Ace of Aces",
Richard Ira Bong scored
40 victories, 8 probables
and 7 damaged. One of
the P-38 lightings that
Bong flew with the
49th fighter group is
shown on the right.

"Mission Accomplished" recreates the downing by Fighter Ace Rex Barber
of the Betty Bomber carrying Japanese Admiral Isoruka Yamamoto, the commander of the combined fleet
and the architect of the attack
on Pearl Harbor.